(Assign work shifts) (Prehistoricist)

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From: The Business of the City

Description summary:
This action's title and description varies based on the city's Style.

Style	Title	Description
First City Remembered Celestial Auroral Heliconian Cartographical	Assign feeding shifts in the kennels	The Labyrinth of Tigers cannot boast such a rigorous feeding schedule.
Bethlehem	Assign laudanum-couriers	Sleep and dreams must be metered out carefully in this city of red velvet and brass.
School of Beatrice	Assign shifts in the hospices	The Manager's city is full of hospitals, and the city has the will to keep them staffed.
Porous Ivory	Assign lecturers in philosophical principles	Furnace does not consider this task remotely necessary, but the city does.
Nocturnal	Assign lantern-bearers	The city is no longer strictly Liberationist, but it remains a bit dark, thanks to your double's Nocturnal inclinations. A bother, really.
Bazaarine	Assign oracle-givers	Furnace has dubiously concluded that a Bazaarine city needs enigmatic street-performers.
Mycologene	FATE	FATE
Terpsichorean	FATE	FATE
Cenotaphic	Assign eulogists	The memory of your departed is refreshed each day.

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Game Instructions: If successful, this will reduce The City Waning.

Unlocked with Exploration of a Hinterland City, Hinterland City - Official Alignment Prehistoricist, Radical Prehistoricist, or Prehistoricist-Emancipationist, Leader of the Tracklayers Furnace Ancona, Unopposed or Furnace Ancona

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 180

• 123 - very chancy (41%)
• 153 - chancy (51%)
• 183 - modest (61%)
• 213 - very modest (71%)
• 244 - low-risk (81%)
• 273 - straightforward (91%)
• 300 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, A Player of Chess 5 (50% base)

• 1 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 2 - high-risk (20%)
• 3 - high-risk (30%)
• 4 - tough (40%)
• 5 - very chancy (50%)
• 6 - chancy (60%)
• 7 - modest (70%)
• 8 - very modest (80%)
• 9 - low-risk (90%)
• 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

No good deed goes unpunished

You have chits representing the available work days from each eligible citizen, and a board with holes to drop them into. [...]

Description summary:
The rest of the description varies based on the city's Style.

Style	Description
First City Remembered Celestial Auroral Heliconian Cartographical	But it's not enough to allocate enough people to each task: there are additional questions of ability and determination and courage. Helpfully, Furnace dots yellow paint on the chit of any citizen who has a fear of claws.
Bethlehem	The difficult part is coordinating with the arrival of proper supplies; that requires cross-reference with journey time to the nearest station, and the expected schedule of trains. "When they run on time," adds Furnace, unnecessarily.
School of Beatrice	But it's not enough to allocate enough people [...] there are additional questions of ability and determination and empathetic manner. Bedside manner never mattered when all you were attending was a metal track. You get the notion Furnace misses those days.
Porous Ivory	Or rather: a hole. You have ten workers keen to give lectures on the philosophy of Prehistoricism; over a hundred who agree that such lectures should be given; and zero workers who are eager to attend. No matter: the speakers can take turns to listen [...]
Nocturnal	But it's not enough to allocate enough people to each task: there are additional questions of ability and determination and friendliness to lost members of the general public.
Bazaarine	[...] You further rely on a set of dice and a deck of cards to decide how the performer should dress, and which Zee-island they should pretend to hail from. Furnace humours all this as though [...] the whim of a child [...] But it does change [...] the tenor of the city; [...]
Mycologene	FATE
Terpsichorean	FATE
Cenotaphic	But it's not enough to allocate enough people to each task: there are additional questions of sensibility and eloquence.

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• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  The City Waning is dropping… (-2 CP)
•  You've gained (220 + Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity

Failure

Distinct disapproval

Furnace, it seems, cannot entirely satisfy this population. "Where are the creatures!? Why do we still have work shifts at all?"

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+2 CP)